New client for GPU

[jugraham]

Thanks for the info. I think I am going to go with the 3870. I can get one at Newegg for $100 after rebate.

[BlackAdder]

Good choice, I've had good luck with mine, as of now I've done 861 work units with it and no problems.

[jugraham]

Here is what I bought and it has a copy of NeverWinter Nights 2. I bought it through the Support AMDUsers link to help support our team. Maybe by this weekend I will have it up and crunching.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814125086

[Impaler]

Whats the cpu % usage at when using the gpu for folding? Still high?

[liuqyn]

running my 4850 it will quite happily use up one entire core all for itself, leaving me the other three for other projects. phenom 9600BE by the way. if run in low priority mode, it uses very little cpu time, but doesn't get much done either.

[vaughan]

100% of 1 core on my Q6600s running nVidia CUDA client on 8600, 2x 8800GT oc (separate boxes), 8800GTS.

If I load 4x SOB instances or let BOINC take 4 cores then Folding on the GPU gets throttled from ~4,000PPD to the low 100s.

[Impaler]

Thx again!

[vaughan]

As the GPU2 Beta client expires August 2nd you'll need to update. I found this
posted by 7im on the Arsians forum and it is useful information:

New v6.20 client replacements are now available.
CPU/Linux/MAC: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download
SMP/GPU 4 Win: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/DownloadWinOther
Change log is posted to the Stanford News page. http://folding.typepad.com/news/


Note: You MUST uninstall the v5.xx service before updating to v6.2x and installing that service, i.e. run with -configonly, and answer Yes to the question about removing the service install.

[vaughan]

I ordered an Inno3D GTX260 oc and a Corsair 620W modular p/s today to replace my 8800GTS that keeps on giving EUE failures. Not sure what's wrong with it, tried under-clocking with Ntune but still fails. Will be interesting to see how a 260 does at Folding.

I originally ordered a Sapphire HD4850 but changed the order when I researched how appalling the ATI cards are at Folding. Shame really.

[vaughan]

Hum ... looks like the combination of ensuring that BOINC didn't steal the CPU cycles from Core 4 on my Quads by setting the affinity in process Manager and adding a Gigabyte 9800GT (a more expensive version of the 8800GT) got me an extra 7,000 or so Points Per Day today.

Let's see what difference the humongous Inno3D GTX260 o/c card makes tomorrow. It took a bit of re-configuring the innards of my Thermaltake Soprano DX case to fit the new GPU card in. These things are huge.

Next thing is to install the drivers and Folding's GPU2 client and better check on the temps I guess.